What is your favorite cover tune?

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What is your favorite cover song (song that was previously released by another artist) Who sings it? Who sings the origional? Is it better than the origional? What is it that you like so much about the cover? My answers: It is a two way tie between "time after time" origonally done by Cyndi Lauper and covered by Matchbox 20 and "refugee" originally done by Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers in 1980 and redone in 2005 by Mellissa Etheridge Neither are better than their origonals, they are just bringing great songs from my youth to a new generation of music lovers and doing it well. Time after time because I love everything Matchbox 20 has done Refugee because Mellissa takes the song and revitalizes it, her vocals are raw and passionate and her backup sounds almost exactly like the Heartbreakers which puts her voice up and out front.